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Sunday, June 3, 2012

New Releases: June 5 and 7

June 5A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan

Farrah "Digit" Higgins
may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has
left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in
with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy
her senior year. But when Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math
professor, unknowingly cracks a terrorist group's number sequence, her
laid-back senior year gets a lot more interesting. Soon she is
personally investigating the case, on the run from terrorists, and
faking her own kidnapping-- all while trying to convince a young, hot
FBI agent to take her seriously. So much for blending in...

Whitley Johnson's dream
summer with her divorcé dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met
his new fiancée and her kids. The fiancée's son? Whitley's one-night
stand from graduation night. Just freakin' great.

Worse, she
totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family.
So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn't even notice
the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister
who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even
though Whitley swears she doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy
who isn't her stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of
them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces
of her family together.

Filled with authenticity and raw emotion,
Whitley is Kody Keplinger's most compelling character to date: a
cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.

Amelia—still caught
between life and death—must fight for every moment of her relationship
with the human boy Joshua. They can hardly even kiss without Amelia
accidentally dematerializing. Looking for answers, they go to visit some
of Joshua’s Seer relatives in New Orleans. But even in a city so
famously steeped in the supernatural, Amelia ends up with more questions
than answers…and becomes increasingly convinced that she and Joshua can
never have a future together.Wandering through the French Quarter,
Amelia meets other in-between ghosts, and begins to seriously consider
joining them. And then she meets Gabrielle. Somehow, against impossible
odds, Gaby has found a way to live a sort of half-life...a half-life for
which Amelia would pay any price. Torn between two worlds, Amelia must
choose carefully, before the evil spirits of the netherworld choose for
her.

Megan survived the plane crash—but can she survive the aftermath? An intense, emotional novel from the author of The Unwritten Rule and Between Here and Forever.

Megan
is a miracle. At least, that’s what everyone says. Having survived a
plane crash that killed everyone else on board, Megan knows she should
be grateful just to be alive. But the truth is, she doesn’t feel like a
miracle. In fact, she doesn’t feel anything at all. Then memories from
the crash start coming back.

Scared and alone, Megan doesn’t know
whom to turn to. Her entire community seems unable—or maybe
unwilling—to see her as anything but Miracle Megan. Everyone except for
Joe, the beautiful boy next door with a tragic past and secrets of his
own. All Megan wants is for her life to get back to normal, but the
harder she tries to live up to everyone’s expectations, the worse she
feels. And this time, she may be falling too fast to be saved....

Surrounded by enemies,
the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a
swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on
human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely
refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when
her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally
injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that
could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from
everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be
trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the
mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it
seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her
untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha…and
the secrets of her heart.

Raine
has always been a good girl. She lives by the rules in Freedom. After
all, they are her father’s rules: He’s the Director. It’s because of him
that Raine is willing to use her talent—a power so dangerous, no one
else is allowed to know about it. Not even her roommate, Vi.

All
of that changes when Raine falls for Gunner. Raine’s got every reason in
the world to stay away from Gunn, but she just can’t. Especially when
she discovers his connection to Vi’s boyfriend, Zenn. Raine has never
known anyone as heavily brainwashed as Vi. Raine’s father expects her to
spy on Vi and report back to him. But Raine is beginning to wonder what
Vi knows that her father is so anxious to keep hidden, and what might
happen if she helps Vi remember it. She’s even starting to suspect Vi’s
secrets might involve Freedom’s newest prisoner, the rebel Jag
Barque....

In a near future,
society is segregated according to whether people are genetically
disposed to mental illness. 17-year-old Ana has been living the
privileged life of a Pure due to an error in her DNA test. When the
authorities find out, she faces banishment from her safe Community, a
fate only thwarted by the fact that she has already been promised to
Pure-boy Jasper Taurell.

Jasper is from a rich and influential
family and despite Ana’s condition, wants to be with her. The
authorities grant Ana a tentative reprieve. If she is joined to Jasper
before her 18th birthday, she may stay in the Community until her
illness manifests. But if Jasper changes his mind, she will be cast out
among the Crazies. As Ana’s joining ceremony and her birthday loom
closer, she dares to hope she will be saved from the horror of the City
and live a ‘normal’ life. But then Jasper disappears.

Led to
believe Jasper has been taken by a strange sect the authorities will not
intefere with, Ana sneaks out of her well-guarded Community to find him
herself. Her search takes her through the underbelly of society, and as
she delves deeper into the mystery of Jasper’s abduction she uncovers
some devastating truths that destroy everything she has grown up to
believe.

He may have given her up
without a fight, but Sawyer Vincent is far from over losing the girl
he’s loved all of his life. Instead of giving up his best friend and the
girl he thought he’d spend forever with, he gave Ashton and his brother
Beau his blessing. However, adjusting to seeing Ashton wrapped up in
Beau’s arms isn’t easy. Complicating everything even more, Ashton’s
cousin Lana is in town for the summer. Sweet, kind, soft-spoken Lana,
who gets under his skin. Just being near her makes him forget all about
Ashton and his broken heart. Lana is everything he wanted Ashton to be
except she isn’t Ashton. She lacks the backbone to stand up for herself
and confidence that Ashton wears like a crown.

Lana McDaniel has
lived her life in her cousin's shadow. While Lana struggled with her
grades no matter how hard she tried, her mother praised Ashton's
intelligence. She hadn’t been blessed with Ashton’s blond hair and
flawless skin, but that didn't keep her mother from lamenting her
naturally red hair and freckles. But none of that would have mattered if
Ashton hadn’t always had Sawyer Vincent wrapped around her finger --
the only boy Lana wanted. Once Ashton let Sawyer go, Lana had been so
sure that he’d move on. Determined to make Sawyer finally see her, she'd
talked her mother into letting her spend the summer with Ashton. But
Sawyer is still in love with Ashton, and Lana isn’t going to be anyone's
rebound girl. No matter how yummy Sawyer Vincent’s kisses taste.

Darkness has descended on the Transylvanian Alps.Four
packs of the powerful Grey wolves – in a rare show of cooperation – had
joined together here in an effort to help their pack members find true
mates. Then they were betrayed by one of their own – an Alpha hell-bent
on becoming the most powerful of the Canis lupis. And though the wolf's
assassination attempt on the currently-reigning Romanian Alpha failed,
his plans to get Decebel, the Romanian Beta, out of the picture were
coming together even as his treachery was discovered. The wolf fled,
leaving destruction, death, and a missing mate behind him.

Unbeknownst
to the other packs, the wolf has employed a witch to finish the deadly
job and help him gain another tool to increase his power. A curse of
devastating proportions will cripple Decebel in a way that may dissolve
his fragile bond with Jennifer. Meanwhile, injured and alone, Jen has
been fighting for her life. She had come to terms with her fate,
accepting that she would not share a life with Decebel, until help came
in the most unexpected form...

Vasile will have to use all his
resources – including Sally, the new gypsy healer of the Romanian pack –
to discover a way in which to destroy the witch, lift the curse from
Decebel and reunite him with the one woman who makes him whole, and
solve a mystery that's been surrounding the Romanian pack for 300 years.

Julianne counts the days
until she can pack her bags and leave her old-money, tradition-bound
Southern town where appearance is everything and secrecy is a way of
life. A piano virtuoso, she dreams of attending a prestigious music
school in Boston. Failure is not an option, so she enlists the help of
New England Conservatory graduate Isaac Laroche.

Julianne can’t
understand why Isaac suddenly gave up Boston’s music scene to return to
the South. He doesn’t know her life depends on escaping it before she
inherits her mother’s madness. Isaac knows he must resist his attraction
to a student ten years his junior, but loneliness and jealousy threaten
his resolve.

Their indiscretion at a Mardi Gras ball—the
pinnacle event for Mobile’s elite—forces their present wants and needs
to collide with sins of the past.

Will Julianne accept the help
she’s offered and get everything she ever wanted, or will she
self-destruct and take Isaac down with her?

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